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Tesseract
I’ve been having fun with Tesseract, an open source OCR engine. It works from the command line, taking image files (TIFF and JPEG work for me) and outputting plain text. That’s all. It doesn’t do...
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I am pleased to announce that this blog supports Markdown. Specifically it’s Markdown Extra, which has a few extra features (like inline HTML support). I’m posting in Markdown via MarsEdit...
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Beyond The Wall: Building Playbooks
I make no apologies for gushing about Beyond the Wall and Other Adventures. It’s an innovative OSR game in a field of me-toos (much as I respect the movement), it’s focused on the only fantasy genre I...
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This is a public service announcement. If you love your iPad2 as I do (all those tasty, tasty game PDFs) but after updating to iOS8 found that it now has the responsiveness of a brick, here’s what you...
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National Stationery Week Day 7: All Rolled Up!
Whoops! I missed day 7. So belatedly let’s look at All Rolled Up’s dry erase cards: They come in two sizes. This Staedtler Lumocolor correctable marker was the one they recommended — it comes off with...
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Three Different Decks
I like cards — art cards, index cards, tarot cards. Cards are good because you can focus on a card without being distracted by other things (text, other art). And of course you can carry them around...
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Five Analog Brainstorming Tools
Following on from Messy Designs and prompted by the Design Games Podcast (around 19 min in this episode) I would like to talk about five brainstorming tools I like for creating things. However the aim...
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Design Diary: Order from Chaos
(this is a placeholder post to keep momentum) One of the things I like about index cards for brainstorming is the way they focus down on one subject at a time. Another thing I like is the way you can...
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